WOOLEN in a Sentence

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For WOOLEN, below is one of 13 sentences:
She had no opinions on anything more polemic than woolen union-suits, a topic on which Mrs. Howland discoursed for five minutes.

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 Meanings and Examples of WOOLEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
woolen
 a.  made or consisting of wool
Classic Sentence:
1  Before the war there had been few cotton factories, woolen mills, arsenals and machine shops south of Maryland--a fact of which all Southerners were proud.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  It manufactured much of the powder and arms used by the army and most of the cotton and woolen goods.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  There was a close stuffy smell in the room, compounded of the smoking fire, tobacco fumes, leather, damp woolen uniforms and unwashed bodies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
4  She had no opinions on anything more polemic than woolen union-suits, a topic on which Mrs. Howland discoursed for five minutes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  She tried to, and did not, feel brave as she pulled the woolen robe up about her chin.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  The pale bark of the poplar sticks was mottled with lichens of sage-green and dusty gray; the newly sawed ends were fresh-colored, with the agreeable roughness of a woolen muffler.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  He spread the rubber one upon the ground and placed the woolen one about the youth's shoulders.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
8  She was just the same as when he saw her in Moscow; the same woolen gown, and bare arms and neck, and the same good-naturedly stupid, pockmarked face, only a little plumper.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 17
9  "Like this," she said, tugging at the folds of her woolen skirt.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 20
10  Mary had slipped on a woolen wrapper before she left her room and she put a piece of it between his fingers.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  Hardly had he done so before he lowered his legs in their woolen stockings to the earthen floor and began putting on his boots.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  Good woolen socks are hard to find in the rural market.
2  She likes to wear woolen socks in winter.